Chap. VI.
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CHAP. VI.
Examples of a good taste in Poetical Translation.— Bourne's translations from Mallet and from Prior.—The Duke de Nivernois from Horace.—Mr Webb from the Anthologia.—Fragments of the Greek Dramatists by Mr Cumberland.
After these examples of faulty translation, from a defect of taste in the translator, or a want of a just discernment of his author's style and manner of writing, I shall now present the reader with some specimens of perfect translation, where the authors have en-tered
